Negative emotion impairs conflict-driven executive control

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Padmala, Srikanth ^a   Bauer, Andrew ^b   Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Conflict adaptation; Emotion; Shared resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855249355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00192     Document Type: Article

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